True Loaf magazine issue 66 out now

Loaf tanning salons exposed. Credit: www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Published: Wednesday 8 April 2026

Features in this issue:

Inside the loaf tanning salon: A former supermarket baker exposes a sector axing skilled jobs and freshly-made bread.
From crop to oven: by Shannon Brodnik, owner-bakery of Crumb & Butter Bakery in Citrus Heights, California.
Barra boy: Five hours by ferry from the Scottish mainland, Gary Lamont has become his community’s baker as Barra Kneads.
A view from the farm: The Organic Farm Shop co-owner Hilary Chester-Master says that running a bakery surrounded by wheatfields has its challenges.
Seed to sandwich in Washington State: Bread Encounters with Sibyl Leon-Lamica and Gretchen Cruden.

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Chris Young
Campaign Coordinator
Real Bread Campaign

Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws in the UK; he created and runs initiatives including: Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise, promoting therapeutic/social benefits of bread making; No Loaf Lost surplus reduction guidance; and Lessons in Loaf for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook, Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book and Bake Your Lawn grow-a-loaf guidebook; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated Sustain's London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards with the Mayor of London’s office. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship, and in 2025 he was named joint Person of The Year by Slow Food in The UK.

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